 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1845 - 408 pages
...general results are given with equal clearness and greater brevity. We do not hesitate to say, that they appear to us to throw more light on the history of...modern Europe, and the general progress of mankind, from the exertions of its inhabitants, than any other works in existence ; and it is of them, especially... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1845 - 438 pages
...general results are given with equal clearness and greater brevity. We do not hesitate to say, that they appear to us to throw more light on the history of...modern Europe, and the general progress of mankind, from the exertions of its inhabitants, than any other works in existence ; and it is of them, especially... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1845 - 618 pages
...general results are given with equal clearness and greater brevity. We do not hesitate to say, that they appear to us to throw more light on the history of...modern Europe, and the general progress of mankind, from the exertions of its inhabitants, than any other works in existence ; and it is of them, especially... | |
 | John Galt - 1846 - 484 pages
...without ideas. M. Guizot creates within those dry bones a living sonl." — Edinburgh Review. " As a historian and a philosopher, we place M. Guizot in...Europe. In the loftiest of the regions of history be is unrivalled. We do not hesitate to say that his lectures appear to us to throw more light on the... | |
 | Jacques Nicolas Augustin Thierry - 1847 - 492 pages
...without ideas. M. Gulzot creates within those dry bones a living soul." — Edinburgh Review. •' As a historian and a philosopher, we place M. Guizot in...Europe. In the loftiest of the regions of history be is unrivalled. We do not hesitate to say that his lectures appear to us to throw more light on the... | |
 | John Burnet - 1848 - 244 pages
...without ideas. M. Gnizot creates witiiin those dry bones a living soul."—Edinburgh Review. " As a historian and a philosopher, we place M. Guizot in...to say that his lectures appear to us to throw more h • ht on the history of society in modem Europe, and the general progress of mankind, than any other... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1850 - 746 pages
...general results are given with equal clearness and greater brevity. We do not hesitate to say, that they appear to us to throw more light on the history of...modern Europe, and the general progress of mankind, from the exertions of its inhabitants, than any other works in existence ; and it is of them, especially... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 pages
...general results are given with equal clearness and greater brevity. We do not hesitate to say, that they appear to us to throw more light on the history of...modern Europe, and the general progress of mankind, from the exertions of its inhabitants, than any other works in existence ; and it is of them, especially... | |
 | Alessandro Gavazzi - 1851 - 76 pages
...complete, and now translated entire for the first time. Translated by W. HAZLITT. Three vols. " As a historian and a philosopher, we place M. Guizot in...loftiest of the regions of history he is unrivalled. If ever the philosophy of history was embodied in a human being, it is in M. Guizot." — Blackwood.... | |
 | 1852 - 410 pages
...general results are given with equal clearness and greater brevity. We do not hesitate to say, that they appear to us to throw more light on the history of...modern Europe, and the general progress of mankind, from the exertions of its inhabitants, than any other works in existence ; and it is of them, especially... | |
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Essays on the History of France, however, the general results are given with equal clearness and greater brevity. We do not hesitate to say, that they appear to us to throw more light on the history of society in modern Europe, and the general progress... 
